Coca-Cola Canada wanted a blog/site where they could easily share information about their company, brand and products.
A cool function to simply display the path of the WordPress template used on a particular page:
<?php echo get_page_template() ?>
How/when to use this?
If you are trying to debug a site and want to quickly see what page template is used – you can put that PHP code into footer.php and it will then echo out the path so you can quickly and easily see what template is being used.
Once again we are looking to expand our team. If you are a WordPress developer and would like to be involved in some great and unique WordPress projects – we want to hear from you. Check out our Craigslist post: http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/web/2724395805.html for the details.
Ever need to make sure all your titles showed up with using “Title Case” and not just by using CSS? By adding the following to your functions.php file in your theme – you can ensure the post title will have the case you want:
/**
* Custom Title Case for the_title()
* @returns $content (title with title case)
*/
add_filter( 'the_title', 'sdac_use_title_case' );
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'sdac_use_title_case' );
function sdac_use_title_case( $content ) {
$content = ucwords( $content );
return $content;
}
Ever want to change the “author” permalink from something like /author/jzelazny to something more custom for your CMS like /teacher/jzelazny? This is relatively easy by adding a function to your functions.php file:
// Adjust your author permalink
add_action( 'init', 'custom_theme_init' );
function custom_theme_init() {
global $wp_rewrite;
// Change the value of the author permalink to teacher
$wp_rewrite->author_base = 'teacher';
}
Flush your permalinks (Settings > Permalinks) and now all your /author/ pages will now be /teacher/.
I recently found a gem in the WordPress documentation. If you are looking for a way to display an email address but you do not want to use the actual email address because you are worried about spam, worry no more. Check out the “antispambot()” function that we have in WordPress. This function will take the email address that you want to use and obfuscates it. When you view the page you see the actual email address. When you view the source you do not see you see an encoded email address.
Example
In the example below – I will am using the WordPress function “antispambot” to create a mailto link for the post author (this would go in the loop).
<a href="mailto:<?php echo antispambot(get_the_author_meta('user_email')); ?>">Email the Author</a>
Further Documentation
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/antispambot
We just released a new version of our WordPress Related Content plugin. This update is very minor (adds in a div that surrounds all the output) but it will significantly make styling your related results easier.
After you update your plugin – you can control the output by adding something like this to your stylesheet:
#sdac_related_posts h4 {border-bottom:1px dashed #c7c7bb;margin:15px 0 5px 0;padding-bottom:5px;}
#sdac_related_posts ul {margin:10px 0 10px 20px;}
#sdac_related_posts ul li {margin:0 0 3px 0;}
* The code above is what styles the related posts on this site.
We just updated our SDAC Post Slideshows to version 1.1.3. The update includes:
I would personally like to welcome our new full time Web Developer – Andy Nguyen. He had been working with us as a contractor for the last few months working on WordPress plugin, advanced theme development and looked like a good fit for our company. I look forward to working with him and building great things!
After working on Lucidity and Lucidity Catalog – we have officially started working on our next WordPress commercial theme: Chicago. Stay tuned in the next few weeks for more information!
After completing a site refresh (updated theme, use of custom post type for our portfolio/products), I also decided to migrate from the standalone version of bbPress to the new bbPress plugin. Everything went smoothly and I plan to spend some time customizing the layouts after I read more about best practices. All our forums got imported and are still available at: http://www.sandboxdev.com/forums. Watch for some upcoming posts on how to customize this new version of bbPress.